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This study examines the effects of financial reporting complexity on investors' trading behavior. I find that more … disclosure, my investigation into the effects of reporting complexity on small and large investors should be of interest to … regulators concerned with reporting clarity and leveling the playing field across classes of investors …
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This study provides evidence that binary signals in audit reports are unable to fully communicate underlying risks that are inherently continuous in nature. Specifically, we find that companies whose audit reports signal an improvement in internal control effectiveness relative to the prior year...
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This study provides evidence that binary signals in audit reports are unable to fully communicate underlying risks that are inherently continuous in nature. Specifically, we find that companies whose audit reports signal an improvement in internal control effectiveness relative to the prior year...
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I examine whether company-implemented disclosure committees help to improve non-GAAP reporting quality. I find that … receive comment letters about non-GAAP reporting, disclosure committees can help to improve non-GAAP reporting quality … experts and disclosure committee legal experts produces the strongest effect on non-GAAP reporting quality. In sum, my …
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future earnings behavior of loss versus profit firms partially explain the contrasting results in prior studies. To conclude …
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pronounced for hard-to-value firms, such as those reporting losses (Baker and Wurgler 2006). Using investor expectations of … for loss firms relative to profit firms. We also document predictable cross-sectional variation within losses, with the …
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financial reporting. In addition, our results also speak to concerns raised by regulators and academics asserting that vivid …
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financial reporting. In addition, our results also speak to concerns raised by regulators and academics asserting that vivid …
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Recent studies document that market participants react positively to the positive language sentiment or tone embedded in financial disclosures, and that investors' reactions to negative news are more muted with poor disclosure readability. However, while language sentiment and readability...
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This paper investigates the association between investor sentiment and accounting conservatism. We find that managers recognize economic losses in earnings in a more timely manner during periods of high investor sentiment. Further, the sentiment-conservatism relation is stronger for firms with...
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